Category archive for ‘Music Submissions’
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Music Submissions: Still Flyin’ & Mesita
Mesita: “No Worries” [EP] I admire the passion, persistence of any artist (who follows up with me) because it reminds me of myself. So when James Cooley (aka Mesita) sent me one last email with the subject line “Thought I’d give it one more shot…” I listened. I’m glad I did. Mesita, originally from Denver, now based [...]
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Music Submissions: Javelin & Baby Jaymes
Javelin: “No Mas” Why Javelin’s debut album is entitled “No Mas” is unclear–because the album totally leaves you wanting more. From front to back, the album journeys from 80s to 90s (when the tracks were first sampled) R&B/hip hop/soul/funk beats, never flinching to be “indie relevant.” The cow bell and synthesizer on “On It On It” bring back [...]
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Music Submissions: The Sparking Arrest and Beach Fossils
The Sparking Arrest – “Live In The White Room Pt 1 EP” Australia-based band The Sparkling Arrest is comprised of brothers Bharat, Anand, and Dhyan Chalmers. Despite only having been around since 2009, the first two have been playing together for years, and it is apparent in their sound. The soaring guitar riffs, dynamic chords and emotive vocals [...]
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Music Submissions: Marina and the Diamonds & Tame Impala
By Angela Sobrepena Marina and the Diamonds – “The Family Jewels” Having already gained popularity in her native UK, 24-year old Marina Diamandis (aka Marina and the Diamonds) bursts onto the US scene with her album, The Family Jewels, which debuted in the US on May 25th. On the first couple listens, it’s hard not to draw comparisons [...]
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Music Submissions: The Hundred In The Hands & Fake Drugs
The Hundred In The Hands: This Desert EP By Angela Sobrepena Is it just me, or does there seem to a recent surge in the popularity of guy-girl duos? The Brooklyn-based team of Jason Friedman and Eleanore Everdell try to distinguish themselves from the masses with their debut EP, This Desert (released on May 18). Their dream-poppy vocals [...]
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Music Submissions: Ashton Nyte & Frank Viele and The Manhattan Project
Part of what we do here at SFCritic, for the music submissions at least, is to compare new and/or obscure artists to those you are more likely to have listened to once or twice. This time around, the comparisons were called out so prominently in their submissions that we felt compelled to let you know right off the [...]
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Music Submissions: The Black Rabbits & Grand Canyon
The Black Rabbits – The Black Rabbits EP The Black Rabbits are a high-energy rock outfit from Ashville, North Carolina. Their debut EP is full of the type of catchy, pop-rock music that is so universal, it sounds familiar even the first go-round. While that might sound like a slight, it sure isn’t! Making that type of thing [...]
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Music Submissions: Solid Gold & Toro Y Moi
By Camden Andrews Sugar and Gold: “Get Wet” You can already begin to picture what a band called Sugar and Gold releasing a CD called Get Wet sounds like by this information alone. Glitzy, flamboyant disco pop that doesn’t hold the cheese, this San Francisco quintet draws influences from groups like Gravy Train!!! and of Montreal and have [...]
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Music Submissions: The Steppouts & Carnivores
By Camden Andrews The Steppouts: “Demons and Devotees” The Steppouts is the studio project of guitarist Barrett Alley and John Winter. Thanks to some lo-fi fuzz from engineer Stuart Sikes, who has worked with groups like The White Stripes and Modest Mouse, the duo sounds as if they could have recorded from a garage. Their blues infused rock [...]
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Music Submissions: Alcan Mckim & Mother Falcon
By Camden Andrews Alan Mckim: “The Law of Attraction” Hailing from Paisley, UK, Alan McKim is a singer-songwriter who wears his heart on his sleeve. Like a lot of the bands emerging from Scotland these days, his music is bursting at the seams with a restrained emotion that just barely keeps itself from boiling over. But while groups [...]
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